Mobile phones have the potential to be useful agents for their owners by detecting and reporting situations that are of interest. Several challenges emerge in the case of detectin...
Kevin A. Li, Timothy Sohn, Steven Huang, William G...
Abstract— This paper investigates the dissemination of multiple pieces of information in large networks where users contact each other in a random uncoordinated manner, and users...
Sujay Sanghavi, Bruce Hajek, Laurent Massouli&eacu...
The Replica Placement Problem (RPP) aims at creating a set of duplicated data objects across the nodes of a distributed system in order to optimize certain criteria. Typically, RP...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Petros Lampsas, Ishfaq Ahmad
Many world wide web applications require access, transfer, and synchronization of large multimedia data objects (MDOs) (such as, audio, video, and images) across the communication...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...